cosmological argument
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcosmologicalandargument
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cosmological
adjective
uk/ˌkɒz.məˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌkɑːz.məˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
involving or relating to cosmology (= the study of the nature and origin of the ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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And, so, it is by virtue of this conceptual connection that the failure of the ontological argument is supposed to compromise thecosmologicalargument.
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Thus, regardless of how it is packaged, every version of thecosmologicalargumentcan be assessed by targeting this core structure.
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Acosmologicalargumentshould have some religious significance.
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Fortunately, the abovecosmologicalargumentcan be salvaged.
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But thecosmologicalargumentwould preclude the first alternative.
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And, at any rate, it is a standard feature of the sort ofcosmologicalargumentunder consideration to deny an infinite regress of this sort.
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Rather, my focus is on the implications of a certain sort ofcosmologicalargumentfor which one might imagine a complete defence.
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But of course purveyors of thecosmologicalargumentwill accept that there is no physical process that is the making of the world.
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We present a valid deductivecosmologicalargumentfor the necessary existence of a powerful and intelligent creator of the actual universe.
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Appeal to thecosmologicalargumentwould be redundant if the ontological argument could be appealed to instead.
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But this revised principle would not lead to an infinite regress for one who accepts thecosmologicalargument.
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I do not want to import thecosmologicalargumentinto the debate at this point.
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So, where does this leave thecosmologicalargument?
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But it is just such a being that thecosmologicalargumentpurports to establish.
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It is true that thecosmologicalargumenthas great intuitive force and is being used to great effect by proponents of intelligent design.
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Thecosmologicalargument, however, does not strictly entail that these terms be used in this way.
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Clearly, neither (i) nor (ii) will work for a proponent of thecosmologicalargument.
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There is nothing here, for example, which compromises thecosmologicalargument, since it does not depend upon our being able to identify goods and distinguish them from evils.
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However, the failure of the ontological argument, instead of undermining thecosmologicalargument, rather liberates it from the dependency it would have if the ontological argument were a success.
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This brings him closer to discussions typical of the ontological argument (in its modal forms at least) than to thecosmologicalargumentand the argument from design.
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